Mets rookie Pete Alonso is already somewhat experienced with launching home runs, with 30 already on the season. On Monday night, the rookie phenomenom took home the 2019 Home Run Derby honors, ousting fellow rookie sensation Vlad Guerrero Jr. Alonso launched 23 bombs in the final round to oust MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN It was, by far, one of the most entertaining nights in Home Run Derby history....

A story that’s made for a Hollywood ending, Mets slugger Pete Alonso is making his way to the West Coast to try and lock down an unprecedented third Home Run Derby trophy in a row. The “Polar Bear” mashed a total of 74 home runs en route to his second Dinger King crown, tying him with a number of players to have won multiple Derbies. Only one player, though, has three Home Run Derby trophies on the mantle: A guy named Ken Griffey Jr....

“A homeless male was asleep in Ozone Park when he was doused with an unknown liquid, then set on fire,” Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) Lieutenant Rudy Flores said in a press release. Ozone Park is a small neighborhood park approximately one mile east of Venice Beach. Police didn’t release the victim’s name. However, they said the man also had a 2-inch laceration on the top of his head, possibly from blunt force trauma....

The Cincinnati Reds paid Bailey, that's for sure. Six years and $105 dollars is quite the paycheck for a No. 3 starter. The Reds have time to figure out if he's worth it, but fantasy baseball owners are still playing their own game when trying to assess Bailey's true value. He runs the risk of being a pitcher owners believe was paid too much, therefore underperformed. That could lead to changes in perception about his performance....

“As someone who spent time in the hospital as a young child, I really wanted the number one objective of our Honda team in developing Shogo to ease the hardship of a hospital stay by providing kids a lasting positive memory about that experience,” said Randall Smock, a senior exterior designer of vehicles at American Honda Motor Co., Inc., who played a significant role in the design of the model....

Ahead of its debut, Honda released a teaser image of the model showcasing a darkened silhouette of the profile of the vehicle. Despite its darkened appearance in the teaser, a number of things have been revealed by the image and the previous 2022 Civic Sedan reveal. The face of the 2022 Civic Hatchback looks very similar to the front of the Civic Sedan. The four-door compact car has simpler and cleaner exterior styling than the outgoing 10th-generation Civic....

Government leaders in Hong Kong issued warnings about the city’s coronavirus curve on Sunday, encouraging residents to practice social distancing to the extent they can as COVID-19 case counts continue to rise. “This wave of the epidemic has been the most severe in half a year,” Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung wrote in a blog post on Sunday. “The next two weeks will be very crucial. We must do our best to prevent the virus from spreading further in the community....

The incident was first witnessed by tourists at the famed Nevada dam on Tuesday morning, with the Boulder City Fire Department being called to the location at around 10:30 a.m. local time. Videos taken by witnesses circulated across social media in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and showed black smoke billowing up from the iconic structure. The blaze was ultimately brought under control quickly by the dam’s own fire personnel and was fully extinguished by the time the local fire department arrived, KLAS-TV reported....

The Two Parts of Your Menstrual Cycle The first part of your menstrual cycle is called the follicular phase. This phase starts on the first day of your last period and continues until the day you ovulate. This phase of your menstrual cycle may be different for every woman (lasting anywhere from 7 days to 40 days). The second part of your menstrual cycle is called the luteal phase. This phase begins on the day of ovulation and lasts until your next period starts....

The team announced Wednesday that the third-year forward suffered a separated right shoulder during Charlotte’s victory over the Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. During Wednesday’s broadcast, it was reported Kidd-Gilchrist was taken to a local hospital to have his shoulder put back into its socket. MORE: Sports’ biggest stars as ‘Crying Jordan’ | What do the Hornets think of ‘Crying Jordan’? The injury is not considered as severe as his preseason injury, when the 22-year-old tore his right labrum against the Magic on Oct....

The NBA’s Hornets, who play their home games at Spectrum Center near where one person was critically wounded as protests turned violent Wednesday, confirmed to WSOC-TV their official team store at the arena was being looted after several windows were broken. MORE: National anthem protests FAGAN: Charlotte athletes need to speak up after Scott’s death Demonstrators gathered in the city in response to the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott by Officer Brentley Vinson, who is also African-American....

Even in a city that prizes its gory past–and currently shoulders one of the nation’s highest murder rates–Hall’s slaying will likely rank among the most savage on record. Why did Bowen snap? His confession, scrawled across eight pages of Hall’s journal, doesn’t harp on Hurricane Katrina. Police insist that he was not a cannibal (an autopsy showed no sign of human flesh in his system). And although Bowen and Hall lived above one of the Quarter’s many voodoo shops, neither had apparently dabbled in black magic....

The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust (BSUH), a regional teaching hospital working across two sites, is urging staff to use phrases such as “birthing parents” and “human milk” instead of language that addresses only women. “At BSUH we acknowledge the additional challenges that gender identity can have on pregnancy, birth and infant feeding. We recognize the importance of providing inclusive, respectful perinatal care to all pregnant people and their families,” BSUH said in a statement published on its website in January....

Position Titles for Hospital Patient Advocates When you are looking for a position as a hospital patient advocate, you will need to navigate through what they are called in different organizations. Hospital patient advocates may have a number of titles: patient advocate, patient representative, patient liaison, patient relations, consumer advocate, crisis resolution specialists, ombudsman, and others. They most often are part of the risk management team, which is the group within the hospital that addresses legal, safety, and consumer issues....

But the alleged dalliance didn’t last long. Once the boy’s mother learned about it, she called the police, who taped two calls he placed to the teacher and elicited his descriptions of some of her unique physical traits. He also told the cops, according to the affidavit, that she suffered from “sexual inadequacy problems” in her year-old marriage and was “turned on” by a taboo tryst with a boy. Two weeks ago LaFave was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, which could each carry a 15-year sentence....

Aikman will do analysis on Sunday's second game, in which the San Francisco 49ers challenge the Seattle Seahawks. That game has a scheduled 6:30 p.m. ET kickoff. MORE: Ross Tucker’s title game picks | Impact on legacy of two elite QBs The Linemakers: Quants playoff picks | Pats-Broncos | 49ers-Seahawks First up: the AFC championship game and the latest renewal of Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning. "These two have faced each other an awful lot and there's a lot of marquee value with that," Aikman tells SN's Rayven Tirado in this week's edition of Hot Reads....

How many civil revolts can Moscow put down at once? At the outset of what promises to be a hot summer, it is an urgent question. It took thousands of security troops to quell unrest in Armenia last month after 24 people died. Thousands more are bogged down in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region of Azerbaijan. The porous Moldavian border with Romania needs extra policing, too. Authorities worried that last week’s violence would spread to Uzbekistan; they declared a state of emergency along the border....